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Story HOW IT ALL STARTED AND WHAT ITS ABOUT! Origional Text from Home page: Barnes Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas" is a 2 track CD. We recorded it in less than 24 hours with the idea being to donate all monies raised to The Band Aid Trust. The second track on the CD is "Red" and was written in Sept 2001 around the time of the World Trade Centre Massacre. To Contact me regarding Barnes Aid, please do so via email here or ring me on 07976 297***. You can also contact Kieron Lockwood, Landlord at the Barnes Wallis Inn on 01430 430639. ok .. How it started ... This
whole idea came about during a Party at Dave Barrett and
Caroline Wilson's house. NEWS...............................................................................................................
NEWS UPDATE 28TH DEC 2004 - 16.45 Yesterday,
we recieved a phone call from BBC Radio Humberside who wanted
to produce a small piece about the project. News quickly spread
and by 11.30 the majority of the "stars" were in
the pub drinking COFFEE!! (a first!). NEWS UPDATE 29TH DEC 2004 - 17.42 Since going out on BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Look North today we have recieved a kind offer to reproduce our CD's. "Golden Media Productions" are providing the CD, CD printing and jewel case at material cost only. Their duplication, printing and labour costs are being provided free of charge, which is working out very cost effective (AND Dave Barratt can do something a little less tedious with his time!). On behalf of Barnes Aid I would like to thank Chris Gould for his generous offer. For further information about Golden Media Productions, visit their website at www.goldenmedia.co.uk WE ARE STILL IN NEED OF A PRINTER FOR THE CD COVER! The Press Association have been out today to interview and film us and although there were only 9 of us available, it went fairly smoothly. The Highlight of the interview was the interviewers faces when Dave Barratt announced he was going on the X factor. hehe funny m8. Oh and ITV are coming tommorrow. Their camera's are bigger than the Beebs apparently. Tip Top! NEWS UPDATE 30TH DEC 2004 - 18.20 The
day started off today with a knock on my door from Kieron. As
is quickly becoming the norm, we were once again in the pub today
for 11.00am (My Mothers going to kill me!). The lunchtime filiming
session went well and the interviews provided much cause for
amusement amongst ourselves. AHA!!
Their Camera was indeed bigger!! In addition to ITV, we also
had a call from BBC Radio Newcastle requesting another interview.
I got this one and the results can be heard in the MEDIA section
of the site. I have been working most of the day to get this site up and running. I'll tart it up a bit when i have a little more time! More on its way is it happens!! NEWS UPDATE 31ST DEC 2004 - 13.28 Dave Barrett, Kieron and I went to open the "Barnes Aid" Bank Account today. This has now been done so we can accept cheques for CD's and/or donations. Please make any cheque payable to "Barnes Aid" and send to: BarnesAid Our first batch of REAL CD's turned up yesterday, properly printed and everything! oooh! A Big Thanks to Chris at Golden Media. Poor Dave Barrett is still having to produce the inserts though, as all local printers are too stingey to offer up any help! All that remains for me to say now, is thank you all for your help and support and on behalf of Barnes Aid, may I wish you a very Happy New Year. I'm off to Dave Barretts now, to go busking round his village of Wressle with him and Caroline flogging the CD's as we go!! hehe l8rs! NEWS UPDATE 2nd JAN 2005 - 10.20 HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM BARNES AID!! Welshy Davey Baaah has returned from the homeland. That in itself is top News! er .... honest! Down to propper news, we have hit £1000!!!!! What else is there to say! There's still orders coming in so the figure is changing daily. The Ebay auction is going well and is currently at £107.00. Someone did take it up to £112 but then retracted their Bid. Shame.
Well, what can I say. We finally got to meet the man himself. Midge Ure kindly agreed to accept our hard earned money and came down to Howden especially to recieve it, though he did go on to play an acoustic set at the Shire Hall afterwards. SO, whats been happening? Well we did actually go on to record a version of Lou Reeds Perfect Day fairly much straight after the Christmas one. We had a lot more time to do this, and the finished article is splendid, even if I do say so myself! 28 of us sang on this one and I have to say the quality of the performances, bearing in mind there were only a couple of "singers" in the pub, was outstanding. There are some classic lines such as John Edwards "such a puyfect day" and Oliver Drew's outstanding "Just a perfect day", not to mention Mark the foot's quality ad libs at the end. Brilliant, just brilliant! Sadly though, I think alot of people lost interest after recording this and Its sat on my Hard Drive gathering dust until a couple of days ago. Also, probably a significant factor in doing nothing with it, was that I moved away from Howden back up to the North East, taking my Studio with me. Dave Barrett and I, have finished artwork and have created packaging for the new one, so its ready to roll if we ever wanted to roll it! I dont however have any permission from anyone to sell it, or even to record it for that matter so unfortunately, at the moment, I cant dish out copies. Buuuuuuuuuuut, who knows eh? Speaking to Dave Barrett recently, it transpired that Welshy Davy Baa had heard about Midge Ure coming to play a gig in Howden and contacted the organisers with a view to presenting Midge with the cheque. Dave (Davies) succeeded in doing this and a time was organised. There was supposed to be Myself, Kieron, Dave Barrett and Davy "baa" Davies meeting Midge at 6.30 for the presentation. Typically though, Dave Davies turned up 10 mins late and missed it! Really sorry about that, he has been so instrumental in the whole thing, but has missed just about everything we've done! So anyway, we gave Midge the cheque (big flappy one AND a real one!) infront of the Goole Times photographer and that was that, a fantastic end to what has been an amazing experience. Personally,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved.
I enjoyed this whole experience immensley and made some great
friends through it. Especially thanks to Dave Barrett and Caroline
Wilson for the party and the stupid Ideas, Welsh Davy Baa Davies
for the Idea of raising Money for Charity AND for organising
the Midge Ure thing AND for missing all the TV, Radio and anything
to do with getting something back from this, and Kieron for supplying
Liquid for talent enhancing purpouses. Lastly, I have created a section for Barnes Aid II, though what the future holds for that, I have no Idea. Cheers,
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